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113TH CONGRESS 2D SESSION H. R. 4411
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
JULY 23, 2014
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and
Urban Affairs
AN ACT To prevent Hezbollah and associated entities from gaining
access to international financial and other institutions,
and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE AND TABLE OF CONTENTS. 1
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 2
‘‘Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act of 3
2014’’. 4
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 5
this Act is as follows: 6
Sec. 1. Short title and table of contents.
Sec. 2. Statement of policy.
TITLE I—PREVENTION OF ACCESS BY HEZBOLLAH TO
INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS
Sec. 101. Briefing on imposition of sanctions on certain satellite providers that
carry al-Manar TV.
Sec. 102. Sanctions with respect to financial institutions that engage in certain
transactions.
TITLE II—REPORTS ON DESIGNATION OF HEZBOLLAH AS A SIG-
NIFICANT FOREIGN NARCOTICS TRAFFICKER AND A SIGNIFI-
CANT TRANSNATIONAL CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION
Sec. 201. Report on designation of Hezbollah as a significant foreign narcotics
trafficker.
Sec. 202. Report on designation of Hezbollah as a significant transnational
criminal organization.
Sec. 203. Report on Hezbollah’s involvement in the trade of conflict diamonds.
Sec. 204. Rewards for justice and Hezbollah’s fundraising, financing, and
money laundering activities.
Sec. 205. Report on activities of foreign governments to disrupt global logistics
networks and fundraising, financing, and money laundering ac-
tivities of Hezbollah.
Sec. 206. Appropriate congressional committees defined.
TITLE III—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Sec. 301. Rule of construction.
Sec. 302. Regulatory authority.
Sec. 303. Offset.
Sec. 304. Termination.
SEC. 2. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 7
It shall be the policy of the United States to— 8
(1) prevent Hezbollah’s global logistics and fi-9
nancial network from operating in order to curtail 10
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funding of its domestic and international activities; 1
and 2
(2) utilize all available diplomatic, legislative, 3
and executive avenues to combat the global criminal 4
activities of Hezbollah as a means to block that or-5
ganization’s ability to fund its global terrorist activi-6
ties. 7
TITLE I—PREVENTION OF AC-8
CESS BY HEZBOLLAH TO 9
INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL 10
AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS 11
SEC. 101. BRIEFING ON IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS ON 12
CERTAIN SATELLITE PROVIDERS THAT 13
CARRY AL-MANAR TV. 14
Not later than 30 days after the date of the enact-15
ment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Secretary 16
of State shall provide to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 17
of the House of Representatives and the Committee on 18
Foreign Relations of the Senate a briefing on the fol-19
lowing: 20
(1) The activities of all satellite, broadcast, 21
Internet, or other providers that knowingly provide 22
material support to al-Manar TV, and any affiliates 23
or successors thereof. 24
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(2) With respect to all providers described in 1
paragraph (1)— 2
(A) an identification of those providers 3
that have been sanctioned pursuant to Execu-4
tive Order No. 13224 (September 23, 2001); 5
and 6
(B) an identification of those providers 7
that have not been sanctioned pursuant to Ex-8
ecutive Order No. 13224 and, with respect to 9
each such provider, the reason why sanctions 10
have not been imposed. 11
SEC. 102. SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO FINANCIAL INSTI-12
TUTIONS THAT ENGAGE IN CERTAIN TRANS-13
ACTIONS. 14
(a) PROHIBITIONS AND CONDITIONS WITH RESPECT 15
TO CERTAIN ACCOUNTS HELD BY FOREIGN FINANCIAL 16
INSTITUTIONS.— 17
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 120 days 18
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-19
retary of the Treasury, with the concurrence of the 20
Secretary of State and in consultation with the 21
heads of other applicable departments and agencies, 22
shall prohibit, or impose strict conditions on, the 23
opening or maintaining in the United States of a 24
correspondent account or a payable-through account 25
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by a foreign financial institution that the Secretary 1
determines, on or after the date of the enactment of 2
this Act, engages in an activity described in para-3
graph (2). 4
(2) ACTIVITIES DESCRIBED.—A foreign finan-5
cial institution engages in an activity described in 6
this paragraph if the foreign financial institution— 7
(A) knowingly facilitates a significant 8
transaction or transactions for Hezbollah; 9
(B) knowingly facilitates a significant 10
transaction or transactions of a person des-11
ignated for acting on behalf of or at the direc-12
tion of, or owned or controlled by, Hezbollah; 13
(C) knowingly engages in money laun-14
dering to carry out an activity described in sub-15
paragraph (A) or (B); 16
(D) knowingly facilitates a significant 17
transaction or transactions or provides signifi-18
cant financial services to carry out an activity 19
described in subparagraph (A), (B), or (C), in-20
cluding— 21
(i) facilitating a significant trans-22
action or transactions; or 23
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(ii) providing significant financial 1
services that involve a transaction of cov-2
ered goods; or 3
(E)(i) knowingly facilitates, or participates 4
or assists in, an activity described in subpara-5
graph (A), (B), (C), or (D), including by acting 6
on behalf of, at the direction of, or as an inter-7
mediary for, or otherwise assisting, another per-8
son with respect to the activity described in any 9
such subparagraph; 10
(ii) knowingly attempts or conspires to fa-11
cilitate or participate in an activity described in 12
subparagraph (A), (B), (C), or (D); or 13
(iii) is owned or controlled by a foreign fi-14
nancial institution that the Secretary finds 15
knowingly engages in an activity described in 16
subparagraph (A), (B), (C), or (D). 17
(3) PENALTIES.—The penalties provided for in 18
subsections (b) and (c) of section 206 of the Inter-19
national Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 20
U.S.C. 1705) shall apply to a person that violates, 21
attempts to violate, conspires to violate, or causes a 22
violation of regulations prescribed under paragraph 23
(1) of this subsection to the same extent that such 24
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penalties apply to a person that commits an unlaw-1
ful act described in section 206(a) of that Act. 2
(4) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary of the 3
Treasury shall prescribe and implement regulations 4
to carry out this subsection. 5
(b) WAIVER.— 6
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the Treas-7
ury, with the concurrence of the Secretary of State 8
and in consultation with the heads of other applica-9
ble departments and agencies, may waive, on a case- 10
by-case basis, the application of a prohibition or con-11
dition imposed with respect to a foreign financial in-12
stitution pursuant to subsection (a) for a period of 13
not more than 180 days, and may renew that waiver 14
for additional periods of not more than 180 days, on 15
and after the date that the Secretary of the Treas-16
ury, with the concurrence of the Secretary of 17
State— 18
(A) determines that such a waiver is in the 19
national security interests of the United States; 20
and 21
(B) submits to the appropriate congres-22
sional committees a report describing the rea-23
sons for the determination. 24
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(2) FORM.—The report required by subpara-1
graph (1) shall be submitted in unclassified form, 2
but may contain a classified annex. 3
(c) PROVISIONS RELATING TO FOREIGN FINANCIAL 4
INSTITUTIONS.— 5
(1) REPORT.—Not later than 45 days after the 6
date of the enactment of this Act, and every 180 7
days thereafter, the Secretary of the Treasury shall 8
submit to the appropriate congressional committees 9
a report that— 10
(A) identifies each foreign central bank 11
that the Secretary determines engages in one or 12
more activities described in subsection 13
(a)(2)(D); and 14
(B) provides a detailed description of each 15
such activity. 16
(2) SPECIAL RULE TO ALLOW FOR TERMI-17
NATION OF SANCTIONABLE ACTIVITY.—The Sec-18
retary of the Treasury shall not be required to apply 19
sanctions to a foreign financial institution described 20
in subsection (a) if the Secretary of the Treasury, 21
with the concurrence of the Secretary of State and 22
in consultation with the heads of other applicable de-23
partments and agencies, certifies in writing to the 24
appropriate congressional committees that— 25
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(A) the foreign financial institution— 1
(i) is no longer engaging in the activ-2
ity described in subsection (a)(2); or 3
(ii) has taken and is continuing to 4
take significant verifiable steps toward ter-5
minating the activity described in sub-6
section (a)(2); and 7
(B) the Secretary has received reliable as-8
surances from the government with primary ju-9
risdiction over the foreign financial institution 10
that the foreign financial institution will not en-11
gage in any activity described in subsection 12
(a)(2) in the future. 13
(d) DEFINITIONS.— 14
(1) IN GENERAL.—In this section: 15
(A) ACCOUNT; CORRESPONDENT ACCOUNT; 16
PAYABLE-THROUGH ACCOUNT.—The terms ‘‘ac-17
count’’, ‘‘correspondent account’’, and ‘‘payable- 18
through account’’ have the meanings given 19
those terms in section 5318A of title 31, United 20
States Code. 21
(B) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COM-22
MITTEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congres-23
sional committees’’ means— 24
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(i) the Committee on Foreign Affairs 1
and the Committee on Financial Services 2
of the House of Representatives; and 3
(ii) the Committee on Foreign Rela-4
tions and the Committee on Banking, 5
Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate. 6
(C) COVERED GOODS.—The term ‘‘covered 7
goods’’ has the meaning given the term in sec-8
tion 1027.100 of title 31, Code of Federal Reg-9
ulations. 10
(D) FINANCIAL INSTITUTION.—The term 11
‘‘financial institution’’ means a financial insti-12
tution specified in subparagraph (A), (B), (C), 13
(D), (E), (F), (G), (H), (I), (J), (K), (M), (N), 14
(P), (R), (T), (Y), or (Z) of section 5312(a)(2) 15
of title 31, United States Code. 16
(E) FOREIGN FINANCIAL INSTITUTION; 17
DOMESTIC FINANCIAL INSTITUTION.— 18
(i) FOREIGN FINANCIAL INSTITU-19
TION.—The term ‘‘foreign financial institu-20
tion’’ has the meaning of such term in sec-21
tion 1010.605 of title 31, Code of Federal 22
Regulations, and includes a foreign central 23
bank. 24
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(ii) DOMESTIC FINANCIAL INSTITU-1
TION.—The term ‘‘domestic financial insti-2
tution’’ has the meaning of such term as 3
determined by the Secretary of the Treas-4
ury. 5
(F) HEZBOLLAH.—The term ‘‘Hezbollah’’ 6
means— 7
(i) any person— 8
(I) the property of or interests in 9
property of which are blocked pursu-10
ant to the International Emergency 11
Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 12
1701 et seq.); and 13
(II) who is identified on the list 14
of specially designated nationals and 15
blocked persons maintained by the Of-16
fice of Foreign Asset Control of the 17
Department of the Treasury as an 18
agent, instrumentality, or affiliate of 19
Hezbollah; and 20
(ii) the entity designated by the Sec-21
retary of State as a foreign terrorist orga-22
nization pursuant to section 219 of the Im-23
migration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 24
1189). 25
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(G) MONEY LAUNDERING.—The term 1
‘‘money laundering’’ means any of the activities 2
described in paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of sec-3
tion 1956(a) of title 18, United States Code, 4
with respect to which penalties may be imposed 5
pursuant to such section. 6
(2) OTHER DEFINITIONS.—The Secretary of 7
the Treasury may further define the terms used in 8
this section in the regulations prescribed under this 9
section. 10
TITLE II—REPORTS ON DES-11
IGNATION OF HEZBOLLAH AS 12
A SIGNIFICANT FOREIGN 13
NARCOTICS TRAFFICKER AND 14
A SIGNIFICANT 15
TRANSNATIONAL CRIMINAL 16
ORGANIZATION 17
SEC. 201. REPORT ON DESIGNATION OF HEZBOLLAH AS A 18
SIGNIFICANT FOREIGN NARCOTICS TRAF-19
FICKER. 20
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the following find-21
ings: 22
(1) In 2008, after the two year Operation Titan 23
run by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration 24
and Colombian authorities dismantled an inter-25
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national narcotics ring that smuggled cocaine into 1
the United States, Europe, and the Middle East, 2
and was run by Chekry Harb, also known as 3
‘‘Taliban’’. According to lead prosecutor for the spe-4
cial prosecutor’s office in Bogota, Gladys Sanchez, 5
‘‘The profits from the sales of drugs went to finance 6
Hezbollah.’’. 7
(2) In 2011, the Department of the Treasury 8
blacklisted the Lebanese Canadian Bank as a pri-9
mary money laundering concern, alleging that it is 10
part of a drug trafficking network that profited 11
Hezbollah by moving approximately $200,000,000 12
per month. 13
(3) In April 2013, when the Department of the 14
Treasury blacklisted two Lebanese exchange houses, 15
Kassem Rmeiti & Co. and Halawi Exchange Co., for 16
laundering drug profits for Hezbollah, it stated that 17
Hezbollah was operating like ‘‘an international drug 18
cartel,’’ adding that the ‘‘Halawi Exchange, through 19
its network of established international exchange 20
houses, initiated wire transfers from its bank ac-21
counts to the United States without using the Leba-22
nese banking system in order to avoid scrutiny asso-23
ciated with Treasury’s designations of Hassan Ayash 24
Exchange, Elissa Exchange, and its Lebanese Cana-25
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dian Bank Section 311 Action * * * . Money was 1
then wire transferred via Halawi’s banking relation-2
ships indirectly to the United States through coun-3
tries that included China, Singapore, and the UAE, 4
which were perceived to receive less scrutiny by the 5
U.S. Government.’’. 6
(4) The Department of Justice reported that 29 7
of the 63 organizations on its FY 2010 Consolidated 8
Priority Organization Targets list, which includes 9
the most significant international drug trafficking 10
organizations (DTOs) threatening the United States, 11
were associated with terrorist groups, and noted 12
with concern Hezbollah’s international drug and 13
criminal activities. 14
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-15
gress that— 16
(1) Hezbollah meets the criteria for designation 17
as a significant foreign narcotics trafficker as set 18
forth in the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation 19
Act (21 U.S.C. 1901 et seq.); and 20
(2) the President should so designate Hezbollah 21
as a significant foreign narcotics trafficker. 22
(c) REPORT.— 23
(1) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than 120 24
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 25
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President shall submit to the appropriate congres-1
sional committees— 2
(A) a detailed report on whether the 3
Hezbollah meets the criteria for designation 4
under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designa-5
tion Act (21 U.S.C. 1901 et seq.) as a signifi-6
cant foreign narcotics trafficker; and 7
(B) if the President determines that 8
Hezbollah does not meet the criteria for des-9
ignation under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin 10
Designation Act as a significant foreign nar-11
cotics trafficker, a detailed justification as to 12
which criteria have not been met. 13
(2) FORM.—The report required by paragraph 14
(1) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may 15
include a classified annex. 16
SEC. 202. REPORT ON DESIGNATION OF HEZBOLLAH AS A 17
SIGNIFICANT TRANSNATIONAL CRIMINAL OR-18
GANIZATION. 19
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the following find-20
ings: 21
(1) Hezbollah is engaged array of illicit activi-22
ties, from counterfeiting currencies, passport docu-23
ments, to stolen automobile rings and other illicit ac-24
tivities. 25
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(2) In 2002, authorities in Charlotte, North 1
Carolina arrested members of a cell run by Moham-2
med and Chawki Hamoud and convicted them on 3
various charges, including funding the activities of 4
Hezbollah from proceeds of interstate cigarette 5
smuggling and money laundering. 6
(3) In 2006 the Department of the Treasury 7
designated operations of Assad Barakat, treasurer 8
for Hezbollah, as providing material support for a 9
foreign terrorist organization and noted that 10
Barakat had engaged in mafia-style shakedowns and 11
‘‘threatened TBA (triborder area) shopkeepers who 12
are sympathetic to Hezbollah’s cause with having 13
family members in Lebanon placed on a ‘Hezbollah 14
blacklist’ if they did not pay their quota to 15
Hezbollah’’ and also was ‘‘involved in a counter-16
feiting ring that distributes fake U.S. dollars and 17
generates cash to fund Hezbollah operations’’. 18
(4) In 2009, Paraguayan authorities arrested 19
Moussa Hamdan and three other individuals for sell-20
ing fraudulent passports and trafficking in counter-21
feit money and sporting goods, illegally obtained 22
consumer electronics and automobiles and then 23
using the proceeds to buy arms for Hezbollah. 24
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(5) In October 2011, a group of businessmen 1
pled guilty to attempting to ship electronics to a 2
shopping center in South America that the Depart-3
ment of the Treasury had designated as a Hezbollah 4
front. 5
(6) A June 2014 ‘‘threat assessment’’ report by 6
Canada’s Integrated Terrorism Assessment Centre 7
indicated that Hezbollah members in Canada are in-8
volved in organized crime. 9
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-10
gress that— 11
(1) Hezbollah meets the criteria for designation 12
as a significant transnational criminal organization 13
under Executive Order No. 13581 (76 Fed. Reg. 14
44757); and 15
(2) the President should so designate Hezbollah 16
as a significant transnational criminal organization. 17
(c) REPORT.— 18
(1) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than 120 19
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 20
President shall submit to the appropriate commit-21
tees of Congress— 22
(A) a detailed report on whether the 23
Hezbollah meets the criteria for designation as 24
a significant transnational criminal organization 25
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under Executive Order No. 13581 (76 Fed. 1
Reg. 44757); and 2
(B) if the President determines that 3
Hezbollah does not meet the criteria for des-4
ignation as a significant transnational criminal 5
organization under Executive Order No. 13581, 6
a detailed justification as to which criteria have 7
not been met. 8
(2) FORM.—The report required by paragraph 9
(1) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may 10
include a classified annex. 11
SEC. 203. REPORT ON HEZBOLLAH’S INVOLVEMENT IN THE 12
TRADE OF CONFLICT DIAMONDS. 13
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 120 days after the 14
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State 15
shall submit to appropriate congressional committees a re-16
port detailing Hezbollah’s involvement in the trade in 17
rough diamonds outside of the Kimberley Process Certifi-18
cation Scheme. 19
(b) FORM.—The report required by subsection (a) 20
shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may contain 21
a classified annex. 22
(c) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES DE-23
FINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate congres-24
sional committees’’ means— 25
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(1) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the 1
Committee on Ways and Means, and the Committee 2
on Financial Services of the House of Representa-3
tives; and 4
(2) the Committee on Foreign Relations and 5
the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Af-6
fairs of the Senate. 7
SEC. 204. REWARDS FOR JUSTICE AND HEZBOLLAH’S FUND-8
RAISING, FINANCING, AND MONEY LAUN-9
DERING ACTIVITIES. 10
(a) REPORT.—Not later than 90 days after the date 11
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall 12
submit to the appropriate congressional committees a re-13
port that details actions taken by the Department of State 14
through the Department of State rewards program (22 15
U.S.C. 2708) to obtain information on fundraising, fi-16
nancing, and money laundering activities of Hezbollah and 17
its agents and affiliates. 18
(b) BRIEFING.—Not later than 90 days after the date 19
of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the 20
Secretary of State shall provide a briefing to the appro-21
priate congressional committees on the status of the ac-22
tions described in subsection (a). 23
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(c) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES DE-1
FINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate congres-2
sional committees’’ means— 3
(1) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the 4
Committee on Financial Services of the House of 5
Representatives; and 6
(2) the Committee on Foreign Relations and 7
the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Af-8
fairs of the Senate. 9
SEC. 205. REPORT ON ACTIVITIES OF FOREIGN GOVERN-10
MENTS TO DISRUPT GLOBAL LOGISTICS NET-11
WORKS AND FUNDRAISING, FINANCING, AND 12
MONEY LAUNDERING ACTIVITIES OF 13
HEZBOLLAH. 14
(a) REPORT.— 15
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after 16
the date of the enactment of this Act, the President 17
shall submit to the appropriate congressional com-18
mittees a report that includes— 19
(A) a list of countries that support 20
Hezbollah, or in which Hezbollah maintains im-21
portant portions of its global logistics networks; 22
(B) with respect to each country on the list 23
required by subparagraph (A)— 24
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(i) an assessment of whether the gov-1
ernment of the country is taking adequate 2
measures to disrupt the global logistics 3
networks of Hezbollah within the territory 4
of the country; and 5
(ii) in the case of a country the gov-6
ernment of which is not taking adequate 7
measures to disrupt those networks— 8
(I) an assessment of the reasons 9
that government is not taking ade-10
quate measures to disrupt those net-11
works; and 12
(II) a description of measures 13
being taken by the United States Gov-14
ernment to encourage that govern-15
ment to improve measures to disrupt 16
those networks; 17
(C) a list of countries in which Hezbollah, 18
or any of its agents or affiliates, conducts sig-19
nificant fundraising, financing, or money laun-20
dering activities; 21
(D) with respect to each country on the 22
list required by subparagraph (C)— 23
(i) an assessment of whether the gov-24
ernment of the country is taking adequate 25
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measures to disrupt the fundraising, fi-1
nancing, or money laundering activities of 2
Hezbollah and its agents and affiliates 3
within the territory of the country; and 4
(ii) in the case of a country the gov-5
ernment of which is not taking adequate 6
measures to disrupt those activities— 7
(I) an assessment of the reasons 8
that government is not taking ade-9
quate measures to disrupt those ac-10
tivities; and 11
(II) a description of measures 12
being taken by the United States Gov-13
ernment to encourage the government 14
of that country to improve measures 15
to disrupt those activities; and 16
(E) a list of methods that Hezbollah, or 17
any of its agents or affiliates, utilizes to raise 18
or transfer funds, including trade-based money 19
laundering, the use of foreign exchange houses, 20
and free-trade zones. 21
(2) FORM.—The report required by paragraph 22
(1) shall be submitted in unclassified form to the 23
greatest extent possible, and may contain a classified 24
annex. 25
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(3) GLOBAL LOGISTICS NETWORKS OF 1
HEZBOLLAH.—In this subsection, the term ‘‘global 2
logistics networks of Hezbollah’’, ‘‘global logistics 3
networks’’, or ‘‘networks’’ means financial, material, 4
or technological support for, or financial or other 5
services in support of, Hezbollah. 6
(b) BRIEFING ON HEZBOLLAH’S ASSETS AND AC-7
TIVITIES RELATED TO FUNDRAISING, FINANCING, AND 8
MONEY LAUNDERING WORLDWIDE.—Not later than 90 9
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and every 10
180 days thereafter, the Secretary of State, the Secretary 11
of the Treasury, and the heads of other applicable Federal 12
departments and agencies (or their designees) shall pro-13
vide to the appropriate congressional committees a brief-14
ing on the disposition of Hezbollah’s assets and activities 15
related to fundraising, financing, and money laundering 16
worldwide. 17
(c) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES DE-18
FINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate congres-19
sional committees’’ means— 20
(1) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the 21
Committee on Financial Services, and the Perma-22
nent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House 23
of Representatives; and 24
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(2) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the 1
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Af-2
fairs, and the Select Committee on Intelligence of 3
the Senate. 4
SEC. 206. APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES 5
DEFINED. 6
Except as otherwise provided, in this title, the term 7
‘‘appropriate congressional committees’’ means— 8
(1) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the 9
Committee on Financial Services, and the Com-10
mittee on the Judiciary of the House of Representa-11
tives; and 12
(2) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the 13
Committee on Finance, and the Committee on the 14
Judiciary of the Senate. 15
TITLE III—MISCELLANEOUS 16
PROVISIONS 17
SEC. 301. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION. 18
Nothing in this Act or any amendment made by this 19
Act shall apply to the authorized intelligence activities of 20
the United States. 21
SEC. 302. REGULATORY AUTHORITY. 22
(a) IN GENERAL.—The President shall, not later 23
than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 24
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promulgate regulations as necessary for the implementa-1
tion of this Act and the amendments made by this Act. 2
(b) NOTIFICATION TO CONGRESS.—Not less than 10 3
days prior to the promulgation of regulations under sub-4
section (a), the President shall notify the appropriate con-5
gressional committees (as defined in section 204) of the 6
proposed regulations and the provisions of this Act and 7
the amendments made by this Act that the regulations are 8
implementing. 9
SEC. 303. OFFSET. 10
Section 102(a) of the Enhanced Partnership with 11
Pakistan Act of 2009 (22 U.S.C. 8412(a); Public Law 12
111–73; 123 Stat. 2068) is amended by striking 13
‘‘$1,500,000,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$1,497,000,000’’. 14
SEC. 304. TERMINATION. 15
This Act shall cease to be in effect beginning 30 days 16
after the date on which the President certifies to Congress 17
that Hezbollah— 18
(1) is no longer designated as a foreign ter-19
rorist organization pursuant to section 219 of the 20
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189); 21
(2) is no longer listed in the Annex to Executive 22
Order No. 13224 (September 23, 2001; relating to 23
blocking property and prohibiting transactions with 24
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persons who commit, threaten to commit, or support 1
terrorism); and 2
(3) poses no significant threat to United States 3
national security, interests, or allies. 4
Passed the House of Representatives July 22, 2014.
Attest: KAREN L. HAAS,
Clerk.
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